Job 20:18
He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
17He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
19For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33The fruite of thy land and all thy labours shall a people, which thou knowest not, eate, and thou shalt neuer but suffer wrong, and violence alway:
Job 20:10His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
Job 31:25If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,
Proverbs 1:12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Jeremiah 11:15What shoulde my beloued tarie in mine house, seeing they haue committed abomination with manie? and the holy flesh goeth away from thee: yet when thou doest euill, thou reioycest.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →